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Spika’s success is by design.
Chief Innovation Officer and founder, Tom Spika heads the Spika Design and Innovation Center, embedded within our manufacturing and sales function, and his team of designers works closely with our customers, anticipating their every need and offering designs for issues that customers may not yet have considered.
With a collective experience of over 150 years, our Design & Innovation Center boasts artists, designers, draftsmen and draftswomen, and seasoned mechanical engineers who have meticulously tailored products for customers with unique designs that have solved access problems at elevations across a broad range of industries, including aerospace, defense, transportation, manufacturing and infrastructure.
Please scroll down for an overview of our design philosophy, a peek into our work and our track record of innovation over the years.
Bring us your most complex access challenges.
At Spika, we have solved extremely challenging and complex access problems for some of the biggest brand-names from around the world, across a variety of industries. Shown below, are some examples. To view more portfolios of some of the work that we have done for leading global customers, please visit our home page.
Design is in our DNA.

Trend-setters.
